The parliamentary battle over Senator Lynn Beyak’s controversial stand on the history of indigenous residential schools is heating up.

Already expelled from the Conservative caucus and the Senate Aboriginal Peoples Committee over her actions and statements, Beyak is trying to block a motion calling for the removal of her personal web site from Senate Internet servers.

She served notice Thursday she will raise the issue when the Senate resumes sittings on Monday, arguing her privileges as a senator would be violated if the motion, brought forward last week by Independent Senator Kim Pate, passes.

Beyak’s personal web site has been at the centre of a storm that began last fall when other senators and private citizens raged over her post of a series of letters on her Senate website supporting controversial comments she made in a Senate speech last March.

Some of the letters backing Beyak’s view then that residential schools benefitted thousands of Indigenous children who were forced into them were so offensive Conservative Leader Andrew Scheer eventually evicted her from his party’s Parliamentary caucus.

Beyak, now a non-affiliated senator with no chance of getting her committee seat back and no doors open to join other main groups in the Senate, says in her notice that if Pate’s motion is allowed to go ahead, and her website is removed, she won’t be able to do her job.

“A Senator’s website is to keep Canadians aware of the current issues facing the Senate, keep Canadians apprised of a Senator’s work, and to address the concerns and opinions of all Canadians,” her notice of a privilege question says.

“If Senator Pate’s motion is allowed to proceed and my website is ordered to be removed, my ability to do my job as a Senator of Canada will be seriously impeded,” says the notice, distributed to all Senators.

Pate’s motion, which she moved last week, asks that Senate administration be instructed to remove Beyak’s web site from any Senate server and to cease support for any website of Beyak’s until the end of an inquiry by the Senate ethics officer into the content of her site.

Pate noted the ethics investigation was launched after complaints from other senators, who argued the comments Beyak posted were “widely considered to promote bigoted and racist views” and reflected adversely on the position of senator and the Senate itself.

“This is not a simple question of free speech,” said Pate.

“This is about the impact of harmful and discriminatory stereotypes regarding indigenous peoples appearing on a web site bearing the name of the Senate and the coat of arms of Canada.”

Bayek, who ran and lost twice as a candidate in Ontario provincial elections under former premier Mike Harris, was appointed to the Senate by former prime minister Stephen Harper in 2013. She did not return a call to her home, near Dryden ON, regarding this story.